15 July 2009

Open Sunlowers and a Watermelon...

Here we have the "Baby group"-- maybe 3' tall-- in the West corner of the garden...

["Front Man!"]

[Here's the baby of the entire sunflower family in ol' Cyg's Eden-- this one is actually in the S. corner-- and about 18" tall overall-- the rest of the "smalls" are maybe 3'...]

And then we got the Granddaddy group-- in the mason bricks S.E. bordering the cantaloupe/watermelon vines...These wonders are well above six feet tall-- the smaller {background sunflower} only three days ago now taking over as height king from his Brother--

[Note the coloration difference from varying pollenation maturation times in the faces ('dark' spots)]

[And again with the pollenation coloring. Cool differentiation. {Well... that, or I'm just weird...One can hope...! ha!}]

OH!!! And a Mrs. A.M.M. wanted to see my Melon!!! {Can you imagine! The AUDACITY!!! HA!}

Lady Stephanie-- my second plantings have slowed down to naught-- just too hot right now...Mucho water and another few... well, six weeks or so, and we'll be eatin' a-plenty!Hope the roots pave way in the clay for future clay breakage. And that this year gives you some good bounty anyhow!Thanks for the visit and comment, my Ozark friend!

Ken-- we gotta at least wait until the Everclear is properly saturating the melon's flesh... ha!Thanks, Buddy!